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The MBR or Master Boot Record is an area at the beginning of your hard drive. It is very important because it contains the partition table. There are also routine boot whose goal is to load the operating system. Backup your MBR does not really interest. Unless you intend to perform manipulations risky on your hard drive or install a new Boot Loader (Grub, Lilo ...) for examples.
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